Overview

An introduction to the journey of a young engineers experience through a volatile manufacturing process and the takeover of a small family owned business by a large, American corporation.

Agenda

• Introduction (5minutes)
• Purolite Background and the Ecolab acquisition (5minutes)
• Ecolab business - Background, revenue, people, business sectors (5 minutes)
• Llantrisant site and Agarose products - How they work and how they impact us (15minutes)
• Proprietry jetting process and advatages over emulsified products (5minutes)
• Site investement (Camelot & site CapEx) (10minutes)
• Use of products (5minutes)
• Site based Engineering team - Process engineering responsibilites, upscale challenges, external support (10minutes)
• Q&A (10minutes)

Speaker

Kieran O'Connell, Principal Process Engineer, Ecolab

Kieran O'Connell is a 29 year old engineer with 7 years experience within the chemical manufacturing industry (Internship with Dow Chemicals Barry & 6 years at the Ecolab, Llantrisant site. His current position is Lead Process engineer at Ecolabs, Agarose manufacturing site in Llantrisant where he leads a team of 5 persons (4 process engineers and 1 draught person)

At present, he is working on his team strategy whilst playing a role in the delivery of manufacturing improvements to one of the sites most exothermic batch reaction processes.

The material presented in this webinar has not been peer-reviewed. Any opinions are the presenter's own and do not necessarily represent those of IChemE or Manchester Member Group. The information is given in good faith but without any liability on the part of IChemE.

Time

18:00 - 19:00 BST.